Mk.VII projectiles

[Mk VII]

The 1929 Textbook of Smallarms contains an article on the tooling for making the bullet.

[Snowy Owl]

Pipe dream. I wish you luck. I wasn't even able to get the ballistic coefficient of the Mk VII bulllet on this site where there are many .303 British cartridge experts. So, as far as reproducing the trajectory of the Mk VII cartridge ... Again, good luck !

[Rastis]

G'Day,
Here's some I cut up. The English one has a timber insert (disinfected for safety) and the Aussie's aluminium and die cast.

Thanks,
Rastis

[Bruce_in_Oz]

In my youth, I pumped a lot of .303 bullets into the stop butt at the Warwick Road range just near RAAF Amberley.

Being inquisitive by nature, I recovered a few for inspection. The Indian stuff marked "KF" etc seemed to have something like plaster of Paris in the pointy end; very odd. It also did not group as well as the pre-WW2 vinatge Footscray stuff we tried to reserve for zeroing and for actual competition.

[Brian Dick]

The projectiles and drawings are in the hands of a ballistics technician at Sierra Bullets who will present the project to the folks in sales and marketing. Keep your fingers and toes crossed Gents. I did mention that it could be quite a niche market to offer up modern duplicates of several sought after military projectiles. No one has ever done it before. Hopefully, they think there's enough sales to be had from the effort of adding new products to the current line.

[Mk VII]

I'm still waiting for someone to do an 'S' bullet for the 8x57. Many worn Mausers don't shoot the sS one well, with it's limited bearing surface.

[Brian Dick]

If we have success, we'll hit 'em with that one next!